The Geographical Society of NSW is hosting 'Emergent Geographies', a Geography
postgraduate student conference (http://www.gsnsw.org.au). The conference is
to be held on Thursday 15th November 2007, at The University of NSW. Attached
to this email is a call for papers for the event. The conference is intended
to provide a forum for postgraduate students, at whatever stage of their
candidature, to present their research in a fairly relaxed and friendly
environment. It will also be an excellent opportunity to meet other postgrad
students and academics from various universities in NSW, and connect with the
broader geography community.
Abstracts of approximately 250 words should be submitted to Therese Kenna
(t.kenna@student.unsw.edu.au) by Friday 31st August 2007.
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Sharon Zukin Lectures 19th and 23rd July
Professor Sharon Zukin is presenting two lectures as part of her visit to the Centre for Cultural Research, UWS.
19 July, 3pm, CCR Seminar Series, Building EA Lecture Room G-19, Parramatta Campus - abstract below
23 July, 5pm, Public Lecture, Riverside Theatres, Parramattta - see attached
“Authentic Public Spaces: Between Consumption and Democracy”
ABSTRACT: Contrasting a small, local park with the globally known site of a terrorist attack, this presentation examines how the idea of the public is constituted, institutionalized, and “emplaced” in different types of urban public spaces. Union Square Park is located two miles north of the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan. After September 11, 2001, these two spaces became gathering places for mourning and commemoration—but in dramatically different ways. Each site is publicly owned and managed by a hybrid form of public-private partnership; each claims to serve the public but interprets that mission in ways that advance the private interests of specific stakeholders and a neoliberal ideology. Yet differences between USQ and the WTC site suggest a spectrum extending from “benevolent” to “authoritarian” privatization of public space, with benevolence expressed in uses of space for political dissent and marketplace transactions and authoritarianism expressed in restrictions on use and nationalistic rhetoric.
SPEAKER: Sharon Zukin, the Broeklundian Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and Graduate School of the City University of New York, is one of the world’s foremost observers and theorists of the contemporary city. Professor Zukin is the author of several books, including Loft Living (1982), Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World (1991), The Culture of Cities(1995) and Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture (2004). Broadly, her work examines the cultural economy of the contemporary city, including themes such as culture-led urban regeneration; spaces of consumption; urban development, art and real estate; and the transformation of urban life and form under globalisation. Professor Zukin recently won the Lynd Award for career achievement in urban sociology.
On: Thursday, 19 July 2007 Time: 3.00pm Venue: UWS Parramatta Campus, Building EA Lecture Room G-19
RSVP: Essential to Ania Ajiri, a.ajiri@uws.edu.au
19 July, 3pm, CCR Seminar Series, Building EA Lecture Room G-19, Parramatta Campus - abstract below
23 July, 5pm, Public Lecture, Riverside Theatres, Parramattta - see attached
“Authentic Public Spaces: Between Consumption and Democracy”
ABSTRACT: Contrasting a small, local park with the globally known site of a terrorist attack, this presentation examines how the idea of the public is constituted, institutionalized, and “emplaced” in different types of urban public spaces. Union Square Park is located two miles north of the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan. After September 11, 2001, these two spaces became gathering places for mourning and commemoration—but in dramatically different ways. Each site is publicly owned and managed by a hybrid form of public-private partnership; each claims to serve the public but interprets that mission in ways that advance the private interests of specific stakeholders and a neoliberal ideology. Yet differences between USQ and the WTC site suggest a spectrum extending from “benevolent” to “authoritarian” privatization of public space, with benevolence expressed in uses of space for political dissent and marketplace transactions and authoritarianism expressed in restrictions on use and nationalistic rhetoric.
SPEAKER: Sharon Zukin, the Broeklundian Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and Graduate School of the City University of New York, is one of the world’s foremost observers and theorists of the contemporary city. Professor Zukin is the author of several books, including Loft Living (1982), Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World (1991), The Culture of Cities(1995) and Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture (2004). Broadly, her work examines the cultural economy of the contemporary city, including themes such as culture-led urban regeneration; spaces of consumption; urban development, art and real estate; and the transformation of urban life and form under globalisation. Professor Zukin recently won the Lynd Award for career achievement in urban sociology.
On: Thursday, 19 July 2007 Time: 3.00pm Venue: UWS Parramatta Campus, Building EA Lecture Room G-19
RSVP: Essential to Ania Ajiri, a.ajiri@uws.edu.au
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
New IAG Urban Study Group
The recent IAG in Melbourne saw the formation of a new Urban Study Group. A full day 'urban' session at the conference co-convened by Robyn Dowling(MACQ), Kurt Iveson , Therese Kenna (UNSW), Sarah James (UWS) and Adrian Emilsen(MACQ) illustrated the extent and diversity of contemporary geographical scholarship in the area of Urban Studies . The success of the session highlighted the timely nature of the study group's creation . Elected at the meeting as co-conveners of the study group were Therese Kenna (UNSW), Donald McNeil (UWS) and Rae Dufty (UTAS). Current plans are for the first event of the study group to be held before the year is out.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Next meeting 3rd August :Theorising GIS
The next reading group meeting is on Friday 3rd August, 3.30pm, @ USyd, Madsen Conference Room. The reading is:
Pavlovskaya, M., 2006. 'Theorizing with GIS: a tool for critical
geographies?', Environment and Planning A, 38, 2003-2020.
Discussant: Chris Brennan-Horley (UOW)
Pavlovskaya, M., 2006. 'Theorizing with GIS: a tool for critical
geographies?', Environment and Planning A, 38, 2003-2020.
Discussant: Chris Brennan-Horley (UOW)
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